Reuben Adams/Terry and W. Ray

W. Ray and Terry.I saw a message on the Adams list which MIGHT help you two with Reuben Adams of Adams , TN.It concerned a James Chilton who came over on the Mayflower.This lady is trying to prove that her Samuel Adams of Otis Mass (bn 1737 and buried in the West center graveyard there)is connected to this James Chilton.My notes say from you two that Eliz (?) Adams married to an unknown Adams father of Reuben Adams of Tn(whose wife is Priscillia Robertson)had a daughterSusan sho married Lemuel Chilton (son of John Chilton of Caswell Co, NC, will witnessed by Simon Adams.My thought is that Ray's Grandmothers and great aunts could have taken the Mathernal Line (if Chilton is it) and put the history to the Adams family.It is common for families to intermarry several generations.(The Adams did with both Barnetts and Chambers in Va and the Carolinas.)That is not to say that the senior Mr. Adams did serve as a Rev Pat, he may have but the ladies could have borrowed the history of the Chiltons as well.Especially since it would seem that the note implys that a Chilton married an Adams in Mass. Let me know what you think.Thanks MeredithI find it interesting that a Lemuel Chilton was in Caswell and could he be connected to the James of the Mayflower?Note the name Samuel.Remember that I have a Samuel Goodbrooks Adams (bn in the 1780s) who married a Hobdy that I cannot place in the Adams bibleMeredith